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A WP "Outlook" piece proposes establishing a moral "yardstick" for American intervention in international conflicts: If for example the war death rate exceeds five times the U.S. national murder rate, then we should strongly consider military (as well as humanitarian) involvement.
More specifically, using some level of mtDNA divergence as a yardstick for species boundaries ignores the low precision with which coalescence of mtDNA predicts phylogenetic divergence at nuclear genes (Hudson and Turelli 2003).
A yardstick I watch on a daily basis is the stock price.
"General Pevez Musharraf has suddenly become an overnight celebrity and a 'yardstick' of general knowledge for Americans and may well become the factor to decide who will be America's next president," began a front-page report from Washington on Monday.
They will insist, through legislation and other means, that Beijing's behavior toward Hong Kong become the yardstick by which Washington determines its level of cooperation with China.